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comments. and then racing to pass tax reform. republicans scrambling to lock in the votes. they have just hours until noon to make the changes. let's begin at the white house where we find our joe johns this morning. do you know if the president will say anything as he heads to speak to the members of fbi? >> reporter: what we do know is the president's visit to the fbi national academy is going to be a speech to state and local law enforcement officers, managers that came here to get training and it's a setting, as the president goes to the setting after many on capitol hill have been trying to discredit the fbi, especially its role in the russia investigation and perhaps

the very least to raise questions about the reputation of the fbi. as you know, there have been tweets from the president and colluding of tweets suggesting the fbi's representation is in tatters in mo tatters, and a couple fbi agents who were assigned to the russia investigation and had to be removed by special counsel mueller because they transmitted text disparaging the president of the united states, and they say the focus on the tweets have been the issue of pop particulars and not operations, and they say to focus on the reputation as opposed to the functioning of the bureau. >> a bit of semantics there in that explanation. a gop senator that voted for

the tax reform says you do not have my vote yet due to major changes he wants, and those would need to happen in the next few hours. suzanne malveaux on the hill, marco rubio, complicating things a little bit for his party. >> reporter: yeah, and this is down to the wire because they want the ink to try and they have until noon to get together and make sure every single thing is locked in step, and the house gop hoping they can unveil it around 5:30 this evening, but marco rubio from florida says he has a concern about the child tax credit and originally it started at $1,000 and then doubled to $2,000, and he wants this tax plan to give something to the working families and to the poor. that is his intention as recently as last night, and he wants more and negotiators trying to give him what he

needs. senator lee, the same with the child tax credit. corker, he was a no before in the whole process and he's looking at the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over ten years is the cost of the plan. he is not convinced of the argument republicans are putting out that it's going to be growth that will allow the economy and the tax bill to be paid for, so we will see whether or not he's actually a yes. and then finally senator john mccain, sadly, as you know, at walter reed hospital undergoing treatment for the side effects for the therapy for the brain cancer and not clear whether he will be able to participate in a vote next week, and he may need to take more time to recover and that's something people are looking at. republicans very much set on getting this passed, but a very narrow margin, and the president hopefully will get this on his

desk, he says, optimistically, by wednesday. >> we will see, and of course we are all thinking about john mccain and his family right now. suzanne, thank you. let's discuss and debate with our cnn analyst, and an economists and former adviser to the obama team on all things taxes, and everything else. thank you both for being here very much. steven, here's what the president and his treasury secretary promised. >> tax reform will protect low income and middle income households, not the wealthy and well connected. >> there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class. >> there is. it went from almost 40% to 37%. is this tax bill the middle class tax bill that the president and the treasury secretary promised? >> good morning, poppy. i think this is going to be good for everybody. i think it's going to be good for the economy, for jobs, for bringing a lot of businesses

overseas back to the united states so we can start insourcing jobs rather than outsourcing like we have been doing for the last 20 years. are people of higher income going to get a tax cut? yes. some of the friends that austin and i have in states like new york and illinois and california, they have been complaining because they will lose their state and local tax deduction, but the big game was jobs and growth. look at what happened in the stock market and look how the growth already increased, and i believe we can get to 4% growth next year. >> that would be a counter argument saying do you really need this cut right now, and i believe, steven moore, when the president said on august 23rd of 2015, the hedge fund guys are getting away with murder and they will get to keep this carried interests loophole that stays in the bill -- >> i hate that. that's one of the things i don't

like about the bill. i don't love everything in the bill, poppy, and if there's a chance to fix it i think they should because the carried interests. >> i don't think it's changing in the next three hours. we'll see. austin, i am old enough to recall when president obama liked corporate tax cuts and he said bring them down to 28%. >> first, poppy, i agree with you. they ought to change the name of the bill to how to get away with murder. when barack obama proposed cutting the corporate rate, you will recall it was not a massive tax cut for corporations. it was to be paid for by closing the deductions and loopholes on corporations themselves, that we would broaden the base and lower the rate.

this is an old-fashioned smash and grab job in which they are trying desperately to get the bill passed before people have a chance to see what is in it. what is in it a huge tax cut for high income and corporations and very little for the middle class and for many taxes go up, and that's why it has a 29% approval rating. >> there is something -- steven, i want you to address this because it gets to his question in helping the middle class on this. when last night the head of the economic chief of advisers was asked why was there no condition put on what we would do with all of the savings corporations are getting because of this, and here's what kevin haaset said. >> we can't make them do that but we can give them incentives to do the right thing, and we have given them an incentive to

locate factories here in the u.s. >> sounds like they are saying, trust us, they will do the right thing. >> it comes up all the time about the middle class, and if you are making between 50 and $100,000 a year, there's going to be a fairly significant savings for you because we do three things important for the middle class. number one, we double the standard deduction, austin, so that means the first $24,000 for a family is tax free, and that's a big savings, up from $12,000. and then we increased the child credit from $1,000 to $2,000, and so if you are a family of three -- i mean, with three kids, you are saving $3,000 off your taxes there, and then lower the rate so how is that not a tax cut for the middle class? >> you are covering up and not admitting things raising taxes on the middle class.

what you just talked about expire. >> they are not permanent. >> like what? >> the cuts for high income people are last, and the people given to the middle class, they get rid of them. >> that's not true. i looked at the numbers, poppy. >> so have i and so has austin. >> the local and state local tax deductions, they go to very high income people and so that's making more -- >> i get that. but i do want you to answer my question that i asked about two minutes ago. they could have added in the brown amendment, and you know what his amendment did, the patriot employers tax credit, and that would have incented companies to get even more of a benefit. they could have put that in, so the white house are they not being disingenuous by saying this is not what we could do,

this is a democracy, but you can put qualifications on their money, can you not? >> we want companies to do what is best for the company and the shareholders. a lot of the companies will bring the money back to the united states, and this is going to attract a lot of not just money but plants and equipment that will come back here. some of them will expand their operations and hire workers and pay benefits. >> are you saying and taking the milton fremont line, do what is best for the businesses and shareholders, and is there a responsibility to the american taxpayer here? >> i think you could make them do something good for workers for the middle class in order to get these big tax cuts. i don't understand why you could look at the last 30 years and say what went wrong as we didn't cut taxes for high income people

and corporations enough, and i think people understand that and that's why only 29% of america supports this bill. they know that they are going to watch their wallets because they are coming for the middle class. >> they will be happy next year. >> i got to leave it there. somebody's phone is ringing in the background, so one of you go answer that. steven moore and austin goalsby, thank you very much. a question the democrats have this morning, some saying the republicans looking to wrap up the russian investigation far too quickly. will biden run? signals this week that are getting a lot of people talking. flipping the state from blue to red, voters in michigan still holding out hope for trump's campaign promises.

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about the fbi's handling of hillary clinton's closed e-mail investigation, where republican senators are demanding answers over who watered down the statement that fired fbi director james comey gave. the initial draft shows the key language was edited out of the comey remarks before the 2016 election. let's talk to susan hennessy about all of this. thank you for being here. we now know this drip, drip of information about all of this. we now know the language that was originally in comey's announcement that the clinton e-mail investigation was closed to say it was reasonably likely that hostile actors hacked the

account, and it was changed to it was possible. this will infuriate republicans who have had questions about the independence of the investigations, and they are not saying exactly who changed the language. they are mentioning peter strzok led the investigations and had anti-trump texts among others that was part of the team, but not saying who changed the language explicitly. how important is this? >> the republican lawmakers are trying to make quite a bit out of who made the changes. what was being edited was the public statement not recommending charges to the department of justice. the conclusions about whether or not to make that recommendation, what we are seeing here is a process of really careful messaging to the public. so you know, keep in mind, this

was an incredibly unusual statement in the first place and usually the fbi doesn't make a public statement when they decide not to recommend charges so it's not surprising that comey's team would want to be very careful and think about every word, every message he was conveying to the public. he was trying to walk that very, very careful line saying, look, we saw a lot of troubling things here but we didn't believe it rose to the level of criminal conduct. i really think it is an over read to suggest that these edits reflect everything untoward. leading the investigation on the congressional side coming to new york and they are going to interview two people, one is the assistant forever to citizen donald trump before he was president and candidate donald trump, and then you have the ranking chairman on the committee saying this. >> if they are going to that

length to discredit the fbi and justice department and robert mueller, they will have no problem shutting down the house investigation indeed and they view us as a prerequisite to shutting robert mueller down, and we see disturbing signs that's what they intend to do. >> partisan politics only or do you see signs republicans are rushing this? >> we have been seeing quite a bit of signs of disfunction, and congressman schiff objected to interviews when voting was going on and staff conducts the interviews and maybe this is not the end of the world but it's a sign it's not a cooperative or bipartisan investigation, and so really what we are seeing is lots and lots of partisan disfunction. it's not without politics or political consideration or some

conflicts among the chair and ranking, but that seems to be more of a serious and credible investigation, and special counsel mueller's investigation, it's a different thing and serves different purposes. the purpose of a special counsel mueller is to decide was there a crime, should there be a prosecution here? the congress is really about informing the public and bringing key facts out into the public space and debate and see if there's legislative measures that should be taken. >> exactly. glad you point that out. susan hennessy, glad to have you. still ahead, auomarosa continues to speak out about her departure, and she's saying the lack of diversity could be very lonely at times in the white house. more of that ahead. e. it's clinically proven to remove plaque, the main cause of bleeding gums. for healthy gums and strong teeth.

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friday morning. let's bring in our political panel. it's nice to have you all here. thank you very much. guys, let me just begin with this. omarosa man agot had a high ranking job on her way out, and she's speaking not only to "good morning america," but also to "nightline," and here's what she said on diversity. >> there's a lack of diversity i would acknowledge, and at times it was lonely, because a majority of them were white men and had their own agendas, and many did not know how to work

with minorities, and a lot of times they would say very little unless it was policy driven, and i didn't have a whole lot of conversations with many of them. on the other hand, there were some that became great friends. it has been very, very challenging being the only african-american woman in the senior staff. >> she also was the only african-american woman in the white house making the top salary bracket and now on her way out and it looks like it's going to be a potential headache for the white house. how do you see it? >> this is not a message the white house wants to be hearing now. you have to remember in alabama the african-american vote and turnouts specifically among black women is part of the reason trump's preferred candidate did not win and now the message is getting out from part of trump's inner circle going on tv and talking about the lack of diversity within the white house and she was made

uncomfortable by the lack of diversity and some of the issues that president trump and some of his allies were bringing up during her time in the white house. >> yeah. >> a number of african-americans has seen what president trump has tried to do trying to erase of legacy of obama, and it could result in a reckoning in the 2018 midterms. >> you talk about what the party needs, and to be fair they didn't need it this time around to win the presidency, but they needed to broaden the base, and they need more minority support across the board and that's going to get more and more true as the country gets more diverse every election cycle. how do you see this omarosa thing playing out? >> it seems bigger than omarosa. this is a white house that never targeted anybody other than their base and they don't show signs of changing. let's not forget during the

campaign, their message to the african-american voter is what do you have to lose? that's not inspiring. they have not reached out at all to that particular community. they haven't seen -- there has not been a reckoning yet, and alabama has been a part of that but there is not a reckoning yet for the white house to show them they need to broaden their horizons here. there has not -- that lesson has not been learned yet. >> i think the white house would much prefer to talk about tax reform this morning than omarosa. if the president can pull this thing off, and it's not -- there's no check in the "w" column yet, we don't know if the numbers are there, if the white house can pull it off in the president's first year, how big of a political dividend do you think it is for the president? >> it's huge. that's why he was pushing for it

for months at a time, and he tried for other policies and it failed and they need to put points on the board badly here and this is what they are aiming to do, and go into 2018, republicans don't have a lot of momentum here and they need some momentum going forward. >> the issue is, and i was just talking to trump voters about this, and they are hopeful for the president and tax reform. there's nothing in the tax bill -- we have not seen the final version but we have seen a lot of what is going into it, it's going to make a huge material difference for poor or middle income folks right away, and what i mean is the promises that this president made that it's not going to help the rich but the middle class, and it will give relief to them but will it be life-changing enough to move the needle for the president? >> he is selling the bill as the biggest tax cut ever and what is in the bill for members of his base and the middle class, people may see a few hundred

extra dollars in their paychecks next year, but it's not going to make a huge material difference in their lives the way the president explained it, and that could end up backfiring when people believe people at the top end of the spectrum and corporations are getting the bulk of the tax cut and that could lead to the class warfare and the fairness argument and democrats are using that to attack this bill and that's part of the reason that the popularity of the bill is somewhere in the high 20s or low 30s. >> right. >> not necessarily something going to help them in 2018. >> you do have more folks people making comparisons the way obama got obamacare through, when you go only along party lines and how that impacts people. let's have a little fun this morning and talk about joe biden, and if he is going to run for 2020. my good friend, chris cillizza here at cnn has a great column this morning. he said biden made clear in his

opinion this week that a run for 2020 -- he said he should apologize to anita hill when he was testifying years ago, and then he said this on "the view." >> if i were offered the nomination by the lord almighty today, i would say no because the family is not ready to do this. if in a year from now they are ready and nobody moved in that i think can do it, then i may very well -- >> what do you think, quickly? >> oh, yeah, i think he's running. he's always regretted the fact that he couldn't run in 2016, and recent hillary clinton a little bit for boxing him in. i think this is maybe his last chance to do that. >> i got 20 seconds. jackie, yes, no, maybe so joe biden? >> i think he wants to run for president and he loves being out there with the people, but i don't know he will do it.

>> thank you, guys, have a good weekend. next, we will take you back to michigan one year after the election to talk to the voters that helped this president flip the state from blue to red and why they do not blame the president for much and point their finger at congress instead. do you not blame president trump at all-for-naug for not getting done? >> maybe more diplomatic in his conversations and presentations. crohn's disease.

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quantico to speak to fbi agents. he took questions before he went. >> it's a shame what happened with the fbi, but we are going to rebuild the fbi and it will be bigger and better than ever, but it's very sad when you look at the documents, and how they have done that is really disgraceful. you have a lot of angry people seeing it. it's a very sad thing to watch, i will tell you that. i am going today on behalf of the fbi, their new building, and when everybody -- not me, everybody, the level of anger, and what they have been witnessing with respect to the fbi, it's certainly very sad. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> i think he tried. i want to support the person

running. we need the seat and we would like to have the seat. i think we are doing very well on the tax and we will see what happens. i think we are doing very well and it's something that will be monumental. it will be the biggest tax decrease or tax cut in the history of our country, but as far as roy moore, yeah, it's -- i would certainly say that. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> you will have too make that determi determination. let's put it this way. there's been no collusion, that has been proven. the senate and the house, my worse enemies, they walk out and say there is no collusion but we will continue to look. they are spending millions and millions of dollars and there's absolutely no collusion. i did not make a phone call to russia. i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows it. that was a democrat hope, it was an excuse for losing the election and never should have

been this way where they spent all the millions of dollars. even the democrats admit there is no collusion, that's it, and we have to get back to running a country. what we have found and what they have found after looking at this, really, scam, they found tremendous -- whatever you want to call it, you will have to make up your own determination, but they found tremendous things on the other side, when you look at the hillary clinton investigation, it was -- you know, i have been saying it for a long time, that was a rigged system, folks. that was a rigged system. when you look at what they did with respect to the hillary clinton investigation, it was rigged and there has never been anything like it in this country that we ever found before. it's very, very sad. very sad. >> reporter: when did you find

out -- >> you know the answer. how many times has that question been asked. go ahead. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> i have, i have seen it and i think it will do very, very well. i think we will inbound a position to pass something as early as next week, which will be monumental. i think they will be great. they want to see it done, and these are great people and they want to see it done and they want to see it done properly. go ahead. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> we're going to see what happens. we have a lot of support and a lot of nations that agree with us. almost everybody. we can't let that happen and we will see what happens with north korea. we hope it works out. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]?

>> yeah, i think we will. the child tax credit, just so you understand, the democrats have done nothing in terms of children and in terms of child tax credit. we are putting in a tremendous child tax credit and it is increasing on a daily basis. the call with vladimir putin. it was great. he said very nice things about what i have done for the country in terms of the economy, and he said also some negative things in terms of what is going on elsewhere, but the primary point was to talk about north korea, because we would love to have his help on north korea. china's helping, and russia is not helping. we would like to have russia's help. very important. >> reporter: asking you about michael flynn, would you consider a pardon for michael flynn? >> i don't want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. we will see what happens. i can say this, when you look at what has gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people are very, very angry.

thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> there are a host of headlines from the president this morning as he heads to marine one and speaks to law enforcement officers. you just heard at the end there when asked will he pardon michael flynn, and he said i don't want to talk about pardons and michael flynn. there's a big headline. he also talked to the fbi, when he heads to quantico right now and he said we will rebuild the fbi and it's a shame what happened and he predicted the tax bill will pass early next week and he talked about the call with vladimir putin saying he had nice things to say about me and the economy, and some negative things and the call was mostly about north korea. joe, what stands out to you most? >> well, the one thing you did not mention there he was asked if he thought roy moore in the senate race in alabama ought to concede, and the president said,

yes, he thought roy moore should concede. of course, moore has been holding out despite the fact that it definitely appears he has lost the race there. i think you got the other things, very interesting, i think, that bit of talk about the call the president made to vladimir putin to thank him for the kind words putin had about the economy, and also saying putin had negative words to say about some other things, though he didn't specific. he also said we need the help of russia on north korea. so i think those are the big headlines there. the other thing, and we have to talk about this one more time, is the president is headed out to quantico to address state and local law enforcement managers graduating from the fbi national academy. the president at the top was asked about the fbi and he said the documents are a disgraceful

and sad thing to watch and the anger, everybody, apparently referring to texted messaged between a couple agents that were discovered despai disparag president, and it's a continuing controversy here on capitol hill and here at the white house as well as the administration and many republicans continue to disparage of fbi, and there has been a great deal of pushback from christopher wray, who was hand picked by the president, and the association, it's a group that is almost invisible and makes just about no public statements but they did make a statement defending the agents

of the fbi. back to you. >> thank you. >> jackie, to you, it was interesting to hear the president say some of the things vladimir putin told him were negative, and there's reporting that putin said the approach to north korea is counter productive, and the u.s. needs russia on this but they are not on the same page as the president just said. >> the president does clearly still try -- he is viewing vladimir putin as a potential ally when it comes to north korea. but this has been so interesting, because you have seen rex tillerson trying to go one way on north korea and the president going a completely other way on north korea, which is one of the many reasons rex tillerson is having a tough time in the post. i wanted to comment quickly on something the president said about the fbi. he said at one point, this is not about me. of course this is about him. of course this is about the russia investigation, and it's about what he thinks about the

mistakes robert mueller is making and he thinks it's all about whether he colluded with russia. it's broader than that and we know it's broader than that and we know it has been broader than that, and it's about russian meddling in the u.s. election, and yet, at the end of that, i am not talking about am flynn pardone pardon pardon yet. >> a quick break and we'll be right back. $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less than $1 a day! his secret? selectquote. in just minutes a selectquote agent will comparison shop nearly a dozen highly rated life insurance companies, and give you a choice of your five best rates.

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president trump may be days away from signing historic tax reform into law if he can get the votes. when we went back to michigan one year after the election to talk to the voters that helped trump flip the state blue to red many told us they were banking on his tax reform promise. what about the president's other promises to them that have not been fulfilled? they have an explanation for

that as well. look. in a stunning election upset, president trump did what no republican candidate has done for decades, he flipped michigan from blue to red, helping him win the 2016 election. >> i think president trump has done a very good job. >> in the face of tremendous opposition. >> reporter: those are the voters that helped president trump flip michigan. we met them here days after president trump took office. we came back nearly a year later, to find out how they think he's done. >> an "a" for effort. >> b-plus. >> "b" for accomplishment. >> i say c-plus. >> i give him an "a." >> an "a"? >> yes. >> bill owns lilyann cabinets, an hour and a half drive southwest of detroit. decker is very happy with what he says the president has done for his business. >> we're growing 25 to 30%. >> so you say president trump

gets the bulk of the credit? >> i would say 99%. we doubled down. >> reporter: doubled down despite major concerns about trump's threat at the time of tariffs on chinese goods. decker imports all of these cabinets from china. >> you're saying a big reason you can't make the cabinets here start to finish because of all the regulations? >> the regulations are federal and state regulations. >> when the president talks about less regulation, less regulation, less regulation you're sag you're saying i want that but you don't have that yet in your business. >> we don't and i think it's going to take time. >> you are concerned, is it fair to say, about the president's stance on immigration for your business? >> yes. >> why? >> a third of the population is of mexican work forces. >> fewer immigrants in this country, worse for your business? >> far worse. >> reporter: decker, like everyone we met here, recognizes the president hasn't achieved many of his major legislative promises yet, no wall, no

obamacare repeal or infrastructure plan yet. but most don't blame him. is there anything the president could do that would lose your support? >> he's just going to -- i don't think that's possible. >> reporter: since nafta was signed in the '90s michigan has lost more than a quarter of its manufacturing jobs and the promise you heard from the president so much on the campaign trail was that he would bring those jobs back. so far, in the last year, though, manufacturing jobs in this state have barely budged. but across the country, a different story. more than 170,000 manufacturing jobs have been added so far this year. compared with the loss of 34,000 over the same period last year. you called nafta a shakedown. >> it was. >> of america. >> it was. >> reporter: but for sal, a lifelong autoworker at ford and immigrant from sicily some of the president's promises have come up short. >> what grade do you give the

president? >> right now i would just give him a "c." >> what do you think the president could do to get a higher grade in your book? >> everybody's waiting on the taxes. >> it is tax reform for you number one now? >> number one. >> if tax reform does not happen, does he get your vote in 2020? >> no. >> no. >> simple as that. >> reporter: trump is the first republican presidential candidate sal has voted for. after casting his ballot twice for president obama. now, it's the division he's seeing that brings him to tears. >> this is really personal for you. you bring up your kids? >> i'm afraid. okay. they're not going to have a pension, they're going to be depending on a government for assistance for medical, okay. you want your town to be dependent on that? no. you want them to be free and have a future. it's called the human race. not the republican or

democrat -- it's called hr. i think president trump has done a very good job considering the fact that he's had very little, if no cooperation from congress. >> i think he's done well considering the level of pressure to literally have half of a country so against you. >> didn't president obama face that same challenge? >> no. i think -- well you're always going to have those sections that we're not going to support obama no matter what. >> mitch mcconnell said we're going to make him a one-term president. >> mitch needs to retire. >> not a mitch mcconnell fan? >> no. >> i think that mitch mcconnell serves a different agenda. i don't think he serves an agenda that's for america. >> where's the wall? >> the wall is going to come. we cannot blame trump if the wall does not get built because you have the globalists like mitch mcconnell and many others and mccain and many others who do not like trump and are

willing to put our nation at risk, our sovereignty, and not have the wall just because they have a personal vendetta against trump? >> you really think that? >> oh, i know that. >> despite the praise we're hearing for the president from the michigan voters there's almost universal disappointment about health care reform, repealing and replacing obamacare was a signature promise of this president. ricky quinn says his health care costs are too high. >> about $600 a month. that's what they take out of my pension check. >> for you and your wife? >> yeah. the health care is actually a lot more than that because we pay a ton of stuff out of pocket. >> reporter: he's gone from making $40 an hour as an autoworker just a few years ago, to $14 an hour now working as a security guard. it's the best job he can find at this point, he says. you were counting on the president to get health care reform through? >> yeah. i believed that it should have gotten through. i know it's going to sound like i'm just a 100% trump guy, that's not the case. i really don't think it's his

fault. >> he said day one, it will be so easy, and? >> i think he's tried as hard as he can, but when you've got people fighting you like that, i don't feel like he felt it was going to be that hard to do and i still think he's going to get it done. >> does a fix to health care mean throw out obamacare? or work to fix some parts of it? >> it depends. i think you pretty much have to throw almost all of it out. some of the big things like preexisting conditions need to stay, but as far as force people to buy insurance i think that's wrong. >> reporter: peggy and jim stewart have been marriedbeen m 12 years. peggy voted for president trump, jim did not. both have been hoping for higher wages. >> i still think he's saying staying with the agenda and promises he gave to us during the campaign, but the fight against him is just unsurmountable. i never seen any president be so disrespected and fought against

as hard as he is. >> reporter: what did peggy and jim get? so far their salary hasn't increased. their health care hasn't changed. >> they got a man with a spine. that's what i wanted. a man that can think on his two feet. that's what i like and that's what we're getting. >> do you not blame president trump at all for being able to get major legislation passed yet? >> well, i think his way of speaking to people could have a big difference and his way of saying you're going to do this, you're going to do that, this is it. >> he could do it better? >> maybe a little more diplomatic in his conversations and presentation. >> reporter: after voting for president obama twice peggy saw hope in president trump. but she doesn't want all that he's selling. >> do you want president trump to repeal and replace obamacare? >> maybe parts of it. >> not all of it? >> i believe there should be a universal medical. >> you want universal health care? >> health care. >> that's very liberal position. >> well, there's other country doings it and successfully. >> is there anything the president could do to lose your

vote? >> how bona fide he hasn't allowed russia to come in and win the election so he would win against hillary. that would upset me. i would feel stupid after that. >> reporter: one thing about just all of these voters would like to see is the president breakup with twitter. >> he's -- please stop tweeting. please. >> do his tweets hurt him? >> i believe they do. >> he's tweeting about it. i'm like why did you even answer that. come on, mr. president, your mind is busier than that, but he's himself, and he's different and i kind of like it that he's different, but i wish he would not do the playground stuff. >> reporter: they may not like those tweets, but they haven't cost the president the support of many of his voters here who feel like he's trying for them, if not succeeding for them yet. >> bye. >> my thanks to all of the folks in michigan for talking to us and we will keep you posted on what they have to say.

all right. we have a lot ahead this friday morning. let's get right to it. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. i'm poppy harlow in new york. news is breaking live in quantico, virginia, on your left and then on your right, u.n. headquarters in new york, because some major speeches there today. president trump is headed to quantico right now. he's about to address a graduating class of the fbi national academy. these are local law enforcement officers who come to learn from the agency's best that train them. of course the president has attacked the fbi at every turn recently. his relationship with the fbi has been, in a word, strained. here was the president moments ago. >> it's a shame what's happened with the fbi, but we're going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. it is sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really, really disgraceful and y